Robert Havard

Dr. Robert Emlyn Havard (1901–1985) was the physician of C.S. Lewis, his wife Joy Gresham, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Havard has also been credited as a "skilled and prolific writer".[1]

Robert Havard
Born1901
Died1985(1985-00-00) (aged 83–84)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine

Interactions with other authors

In addition to his medical research papers, Havard authored an appendix for C. S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain as well as a description of Lewis included in Remembering C. S. Lewis: Recollections of Those Who Knew Him and one of J. R. R. Tolkien included in Mythlore.[1]

Lewis invited Havard to join the Oxford-based Inklings because of the literary interests he shared with that group. Like Tolkien, he was a Roman Catholic. Havard was sometimes referred to by the Inklings as the "Useless Quack," mainly because Warren Lewis once called him so upon being irritated by his tardiness, and his brother, Jack, thought it quite amusing at the time and caused the nickname to continue. The abbreviation "U.Q." was thereafter a common reference to Havard.[1]

Hugo Dyson once called him "Humphrey" when he could not remember his name. After that, Havard was quite frequently known as "Dr. Humphrey Havard," to the extent that when Douglas Gresham came to know him years later and became his patient, it was some time before he discovered Robert Havard's actual name was not really Humphrey.[1]

gollark: This is you, then.
gollark: No.
gollark: We've been through this. Maybe. Possibly.
gollark: This is 47 minutes. I am willing to watch up to exactly 76 seconds.
gollark: No you don't.

References
  1. Glyer, Diana (2007). The Company They Keep. Kent, OH: Kent State UP. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-87338-890-0.
  • Charlton, Bruce G (June 2009). "Reflections on a scientific paper of 1926 by the medical 'Inkling' Robert Ellyn 'Humphrey' Havard (1901-1985)". Med. Hypotheses. Scotland. 72 (6): 619–20. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2009.03.003. PMID 19297104.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.